Saving the nation with selfies and memes

• The Tech
• The People
• Media

The Institute for Security and Technology (IST), in partnership with the Center for Cybersecurity Policy and Law, is pleased to announce the inaugural edition of The Cyber Policy Awards—an annual gathering of the U.S. cyber policy community to honor and celebrate those who drove significant progress in the preceding year, and to make resolutions for the new year.

• Awards and prizes
• Cybersecurity

Festival Latinoamericano de Instalacion de Software Libre (FLISOL) sede Venezuela

• The People
• Meet the others
• Conferences

This report reviews Citi Bike’s performance to-date and recommends a comprehensive contract overhaul to ensure more reliable and equitable service, with a strategic mix of performance standards, attention to equitable service, and incentives to enable Citi Bike to thrive as a key element of the transportation network – whether under Lyft or a new operator.

• mobility
• cities
• Reduced inequalities

• Civic data
• Data science for social good

We are Sea Island Software, Inc., a company specializing in hurricane threat assessment. HurricaneMapping.com is our storm tracking service for Google Earth and ESRI's ArcGIS.

• hurricanes

• Civic data
• Govtech
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

Over 860 "Coders, product managers and anyone who wants to help the party win with better technology."

• partisan

• Organize campaigns
• Meet the others
• Advocacy tech

The Changemaker Award, which celebrates and recognises the best role model and leader from within the EIT Community's education programmes, and whose activities and achievements have the potential to generate a significant social impact.

• Awards and prizes

We are an employee-owned digital mobilisation agency. We create campaigns online that get people to take action.

• partisan

• Organize campaigns
• Advocacy tech

Focused on promoting conversation and action when it comes to the ending of organisations in civil society.

• Fieldwide resources

LASS (Location Aware Sensing System) is an open source and public welfare "environmental sensor network system". 是一套開源和公益的「環境感測器網路系統」

• air quality
• Clean water and sanitation

• Crowdsourcing
• Smart Cities and sensors

"...Open source hardware gives people the freedom to control their technology while sharing knowledge and encouraging commerce through the open exchange of designs."

• Meet the others
• Hardware
• Citizen science

This process code will introduce you to a digital-native approach to procurement. It maintains the core principles of public procurement—fairness, transparency and objectivity—but realigns the process with contemporary software development.

• guides

• Govtech
• Procurement

Building on years of work and investments, a growing group of national, regional, and local funders have come forward to invest in local news and information.

• Media
• Journalism
• Foundation initiatives

The CampaignTech Awards by Campaigns & Elections recognize the truly exceptional in the field of political campaign technology, digital strategy, tactics, and techniques.

• Organize campaigns
• Advocacy tech
• Awards and prizes

This map will help us grow volunteer engagement at a neighborhood level and track our progress towards increasing tree stewardship across District 33 (in New York City)

• trees
• cities
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Civic maps

We are excited to invite you to cast your vote for this year's awards, where we celebrate exceptional work in fact-checking.

• Fight disinformation
• Awards and prizes

WSA (World Summit Awards) is a unique awards system, selecting and promoting local digital innovation to improve society.

• Get funding
• Awards and prizes

Organised by the European Social Network, the Awards shine a spotlight on successful new approaches and the extraordinary ongoing work of public social services managers, funders, planners, providers, and deliverers of social services, as well as providing opportunities for exchange and mutual learning to improve social work policies and practice.

• Awards and prizes
• Access social benefits

.ORG Impact Awards (OIAs) recognizes and rewards those who have achieved meaningful success, often overcoming difficult challenges with few resources. These people and organizations work tirelessly – together –  in pursuit of their missions – not for recognition or financial gain, but to simply make the world a better place.

• Awards and prizes
• Nonprofit tech

The Heintzman Leadership Award (HLA) is presented annually by the Institute for Citizen-Centred Service (ICCS) to an individual who has demonstrated outstanding leadership within the Canadian public sector in promoting and influencing change in its delivery of citizen-centred service.

• Govtech
• Awards and prizes
• Service delivery

TTS annually awards the Andrew Hyder Government Service Improvement Award to one or more federal employees who demonstrate both excellence in their work and a commitment to improving the public’s experience with government. This award commemorates the life and work of Andrew Hyder, a consulting software engineer at 18F who tragically passed away in 2021.

• Govtech
• Awards and prizes
• Service delivery

An award for the best games for social impact of the year

• 2023 Webby Awards

• Awards and prizes
• Games and gamification

A report by Written by Nneka Sobers and Dr. Anthony Townsend.

• reports
• case studies

• Govtech
• Reports

"Findings from this study presents a developed model that can support community engagement for urban innovation by specifying factors that influences community engagement for smart sustainable city development." by Bokolo Anthony Jr.

• Participatory democracy
• Learn about civic tech
• Academia

"Journalists and bloggers in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan can enter this contest." - International Journalists' Network

• Media
• Get funding
• Awards and prizes

A 12 hour asynchronous online “base” program to help you launch your practice

• courses

• Adjacent Fields
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Online courses

Homeward is an identity management system and intelligent resettlement platform for displaced populations.

• refugees
• migration

• Emerging tech
• Graveyard
• Blockchain

The Good Lobby Awards is an annual celebration of projects, initiatives and campaigns led by citizens committed to lobbying for change.

• Advocacy tech
• Awards and prizes
• Specific campaigns

The Schwab Foundation’s 2023 Awards seeks to honour social change leaders, across a diversity of social innovation models in society in four different award categories

• Awards and prizes

Supporting Indigenous land and data stewards for community centered science

• indigenous
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Civic data
• Research and policy centers
• Academia

An annual feature by a technology columnist in the New York Times

• Media
• Awards and prizes
• Mainstream media coverage

For the first time ever, we will be holding a Democracy Awards Dinner to recognise and champion the outstanding work being done across our sector.

• Awards and prizes

Nominees are individuals who are champions for the use of data in evidence-based decision-making, transparency, and accountability.

• Civic data
• Awards and prizes
• Open government data

CGNet Swara is a voice-based portal, freely accessible via mobile phone, that allows anyone to report and listen to stories of local interest

• Media
• Hyperlocal news and citizen media

As part of the Beeck Center’s Digital Service Collaborative , a project in partnership with The Rockefeller Foundation, we will knit together a collection of state agencies based on common needs to help them collaboratively procure, develop, and maintain the software that they all depend on. This will prevent 50 states from buying 50 versions of near-identical, overpriced software, and instead allows them to procure high-quality, fair-priced software just once, and share it amongst themselves.

• local

• Govtech
• Partner networks
• Peer networks

2022 Nonprofit Software Development Summit

• Conferences

The Future of Government Awards champions practitioners, teams and leaders who are transforming people’s lives by applying digital solutions and leveraging technology to reform the public sector for those it serves.

• Amazon

• Govtech
• Awards and prizes

The annual Innovation in Politics Awards recognise creative politicians from across Europe who have the courage to break new ground to find innovative solutions for today’s challenges.

• Awards and prizes

Does your nonprofit have a technology related project idea that will advance your mission?

• Awards and prizes
• Nonprofit tech

Mozilla Foundation is providing $258,300 to people and projects that reimagine the way data is governed

• Get funding
• Awards and prizes

We aim to reframe the conversation about technology and labor towards issues of power, inequality, and social justice, and incorporate themes of feminism, anti-racism, and transnationalism. 

• Academia
• Awards and prizes

RECOGNIZING EXCELLENCE IN JOURNALISM

• Media
• Awards and prizes
• Journalism

Leading up to and following the Kenyan election on August 9 2022, the Sentinel Project is expanding its previous work in the area, from Una Hakika to 15 of Kenya's highest risk counties.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Voting and elections

Internews’ Thwarting Disinformation and Promoting Quality Information in Haitian Media project will limit the impact of inflammatory rhetoric, false news and disinformation.

• Media
• Fight disinformation